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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Organisms and environments. The student knows how system are organized and function to support the health of an organism and how trait are inherited.

specific variation in the characteristics of organisms received from a parent or ancestor by genetic transmission
 

an individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life

regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole